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Cross-Platform Development with Qt 6 and Modern C++

You're reading from   Cross-Platform Development with Qt 6 and Modern C++ Design and build applications with modern graphical user interfaces without worrying about platform dependency

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800204584
Length 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Qt 6 FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Introduction to Qt Creator 4. Chapter 3: GUI Design Using Qt Widgets 5. Chapter 4: Qt Quick and QML 6. Section 2: Cross-Platform Development
7. Chapter 5: Cross-Platform Development 8. Section 3: Advanced Programming, Debugging, and Deployment
9. Chapter 6: Signals and Slots 10. Chapter 7: Model View Programming 11. Chapter 8: Graphics and Animations 12. Chapter 9: Testing and Debugging 13. Chapter 10: Deploying Qt Applications 14. Chapter 11: Internationalization 15. Chapter 12: Performance Considerations 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

GUI testing tools

You can easily evaluate one or more classes as unit tests, but we have to manually write all of the test cases. GUI testing is an especially challenging task. How can we document user interactions such as mouse clicks without coding them in C++ or QML? This question has baffled developers. There are a number of GUI testing tools available on the market that help us do this. Some of them are expensive, some of them are open source. We will discuss a few such tools in this section.

However, you may not need a complete GUI testing framework. Some issues can be figured out with simple tricks. For example, while working with the GUI, you may also have to inspect different properties such as the alignment and boundaries of visual elements. One of the easiest ways is to add a Rectangle to inspect the boundary as shown in the next code:

Rectangle {
    id: container
    anchors {
        ...
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